Announcing Show-mEE (live EE Code View)
Thanks to the ingenious efforts of Greg Aker of EllisLab, I’m pleased to announce the Train-ee Church Site has a new feature - which allows you as the site visitor to click a link and immediately get the unrendered ExpressionEngine template code that creates the page you are looking at.
Just look in the page footer for this button:
Click that link and Greg’s nifty plugin kicks in, retrieving the live EE template that generates that page.
An instant answer for the inevitable “how does this page get coded in EE” questions that come up!
Right now I have the code installed on just the Church site. Since the plug-in is new I’ll let it bake there a bit. If it proves reliable I’ll also roll it out on the Small Business site and—yes - even here on the master Train-ee site.
Let me know how it works!
Edit/Add - Also thanks to Pascal Kriete for offering up another approach. To get two contributions within an hour of a request posted on Twitter is testament the the quality of the EE community and staff.
Previous Comments
by Leevi Graham
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #2
Wow, what a great extension!
I was thinking about building something like this for a new project on the boil. Is there anyway to display teh embedded templates?
by ramonekalsaw
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #3
Wow! Powerful! I was literally musing about how useful this would be the other day ... not thinking it was anywhere close to reality.
You’re doing the good work my friend.
Train-ee is the place to be for things EE : )
by Mike Boyink (Author)
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #4
At the moment I don’t think so - but then again I haven’t played with putting the plugin into the embedded templates.
If this proves popular (which I think it will) maybe it can be iterated on to do embeds.
by Mike Boyink (Author)
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #5
Ugh - my poor Photoshop skills are showing with that button. Might need a revision there…;)
by Mark Bowen
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #6
Very nice feature, well done Greg and Mike.
Are we going to get to know how this was done perhaps? ;-)
Just read your latest blog post Mike. All the best for 2009. I’m sure that you will do just great.
Best wishes,
Mark
by T.ee.F.oo
Date: Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Comment: #7
That is cool-ish tool for people who don’t mind sharing. There’s no way it could be a security concern is there? Not sure how, the templates never show any db settings or anything do they?
Thanks, it’s like the ultimate X-ray cheatsheet for any live page anybody may use this
by Richard Angstmann
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Comment: #1
Absolutely superb! What a great idea for a plugin… it really is pretty ingenious as you say. This is going to be extremely useful for people learning EE.
I am going to rush off now and try it out on the Church site.
Well done Mike!